Fascinating facts about dreams (12 Photos)

#11 I remember a teacher telling me that in school. One of those random facts that just stayed with me.

Fascinating! sharing this. The only dreams I tend to remember are sex, flying or dreams about work. In fact one dream I had about work was racking my brain about how to help one of our students better communicate their wants and needs. It came to me in my dream (Which basically use what they like to apply to social communication) I jumped up wrote that shit down went back to bed and best news? It worked, we had a huge breakthrough with them and reduced their challenging behaviour. Sorry for the long sentence just thought it was appropriate.

3 B's in my dreams. boobs, beer and bacon. morning wood

Please explain to me how #6 was proven. Also, anyone ever have the dream where they’re back in college and you’re not going to graduate bc you forgot about a class all semester?

I was almost fascinated by this, then I sawr "according to Wikipedia"…. This isn't Reddit!

All I can say chive is this is copied almost exactly from listverse. I though you were above this. Otherwise I never have a bad word to say about you guys!

#7 Wow I have always had dreams about my teeth falling out, never knew of anyone else having them. Always dreaming about falling, trying to run but cant. Hate dreams like that.

I don't buy into scientific research for the most part. How do they know we forget most of our dreams if we forget them and are unable to tell anybody what we dreamed because we forgot it? Scientist need to start putting a disclaimer on all of their research that reads: This is scientific fact until we come up with another scientific fact that disproves the earlier scientific fact.

So we are going to trust the statements of this person who relies on Wikipedia and their own "personal experience?"
#3 #4

heres a fact yall missed. the brain produces the drug DMT when in R.E.M. (pronounced rem not the band), this is thought to contribute to such vivid dreams you cant sleep, and an abnormal level of DMT in people who quit smoking cigarettes and cannabis, resulting in insomnia for these people.

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QUICKLY EVERYONE! Lets go to wikipedia. Then it won't matter what our degree or study is in…we'll all be geniuses as long as the internet doesn't go down.

dreams are like your fantasy football team…the only that cares to hear about them is you….

Silky, I have that dream of missing a class all semester continuously and have had it recently even though I graduated 8 years ago. Best I can explain it’s meaning is feelings of regret. Very interesting to hear other people have that same dream. Is yours always the same class? Mine is always the same econ class…weird

i've also had this a few times (cool story bro yeah yeah yeah), but it is genuinely terrifying. You feel wide awake, can't feel your body and no matter how much you try, you physically can't move a limb.
Like you said, when your dreams and this half-asleep state combine, it results in some fucking terrifying dreams and situations your mind throws itself into…

#3, #8 I don't want to be a party pooper, but a lot of this is up for speculation. For starters, Wikipedia is not a legitimate source of information when discussing science (try: academic search premiere). Second off, I've seen number 8 on the internet before and asked my psychologist brother about it. He pretty much said that it's bullshit. Interesting stuff, probably not much legitimacy to some of it though. I stopped reading at 8.

Everyone thinks I am weird because I remember everything of every dream even after years. I remember dreams from when I was 4 all the way to dreams from last night. I control my dreams and have thoughts; I tell people I feel like I’m 38 (I’m 19) because I dream so vividly it feels like I have lived for twice as long. I have never dreamt about food or water though, probably why I wake up so freaking hungry every morning. Lolll When I dream of being in Hell, I basically shut down Satan rather than being scared. I find “scary” dreams to be awesome because I’m never freaked out, but rather I feel like a boss (especially in zombie dreams). Maybe I should write some movies when I’m older?

#3 Because everything on Wikipedia is true…just ask em

thank you for info, man. question; how come i then punch or kick in my sleep? would this be because my conscious mind temporarily, no matter how short the duration, wakes?

I have NEVER had to read so much on the chive, but totally worth it.

#1 is nonsense. Me wife kicks, talks, and throws her arms around while she's asleep.

My friend says she doesn’t dream

I dreamt about cock last night.. I mean a cock fight.. As in roosters . You all have dirty minds! :p

I would have enjoyed it more if the text didn't read as if a philosophy student on crack had written it.

So does that mean all the chicks I look at while Chiving may be part of my dreams?!? Niiiiiiice!!!

#11 is absolutely false. He claimed to have been inspired for Kubla Khan and said he was unable to complete it because that inspiration ran out, but it was later discovered that only did some of the facts of his story match up, but he had previous "drafts" of the poem in his possession as well. Coleridge worked long and hard on that poem.